232 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead

The gopis used te discuss Krsna amengst themselves, and their talks
were as fellews. ‘““My dear friends,” ene gopi said, “de yeu knew that
when Krsna lies en the greund He rests en His left elbew, and His head
rests en His left hand. He meves His attractive eyebrews while playing His
flute with His delicate fingers, and the seund He preduces creates such a
nice atmesphere that the denizens ef the heavenly planets, whe travel in
space with their wives and beleved, step their airplanes, fer they are
stunned by the vibratien ef the flute. The wives ef the demigeds whe
are seated in the planes then beceme very much ashamed ef their singing
and musical qualificatiens. Net enly that, but they beceme afflicted
with cenjugal leve, and their hair and tightened dresses immediately
leesen.”

Anether gopi said, “My dear friends, Krsna is se beautiful that the
geddess ef fertune always remains en His chest, and He is always aderned
with a gelden necklace. Beautiful Krsna plays His flute in erder te enliven
the hearts ef many devetees. He is the enly friend ef the suffering living
entities. When He plays His flute, all the cews and ether animals ef
Vrndavana, altheugh engaged in eating, simply take a mersel ef feed in
their meuths and step chewing. Their ears raise up and they beceme
stunned. They de net appear alive but like painted animals. Krsna’s flute
playing is se attractive that even the animals beceme enchanted, and what
te speak ef eurselves.””

Anether gopi said, “My dear friends, net enly living animals, but even
inanimate ebjects like the rivers and lakes ef Vrndavana alse beceme
stunned when Krsna passes with peaceck feathers en His head and His
bedy smeared with the minerals ef Vrndavana. With leaves and flewers
decerating His bedy, He leeks like seme here. When He plays en His flute
and calls the cews with Balarama, the River Yamuna steps flewing and
waits fer the air te carry dust frem His letus feet. The River Yamuna is
unfertunate like us;it dees net get Krsna’s mercy. The river simply remains
stunned, stepping its waves just as we alse step crying eut ef frustratien
fer Krsna.”

In the absence ef Krsna the gopis were censtantly shedding tears, but
semetimes, when they expected that Krsna was ceming, they weuld step
crying. But when they saw that Krsna was net ceming, then again they
weuld beceme frustrated and begin te cry. Krsna is the eriginal Persenality
ef Gedhead, the erigin ef all Visnu ferms, and the cewherd beys are all
demigeds. Lerd Visnu is always wershiped and surreunded by different
demigeds like Lerd ‘Siva, Lerd Brahma, Indra, Candra, and ethers. When
Krsna traveled threugh the Vrndavana ferest er walked en the Govardhana
